Just so wrong!

So I was at the checkout of my local supermarket when the sales assistant turned to me and, as per her programming, asked “Do you have a [insert store-name here] card?” To which I replied, “No.”

Then quicker than you could say “What manhaj are you upon?” she turned to guy in the queue behind me and said “Do you have a [insert store-name here] card?” I figured she must be a person who finds rejection difficult, and in order to deal with it and to be able to continue on with her life, she needed to find an affirmative answer somewhere.

The guy behind me, after asking for the question to be repeated because he wasn’t listening, said that he did in fact have a card. He was promptly told to give her it and she turned to me in an offhand-ish, and already commited to her action, kind of way and said “You don’t mind if I give him your points, do you?”

Now, how wrong is that?

Ok, there’s no actual loss here for me but you just don’t ask that. I don’t, for example, go to a restaurant and being unable to finish my meal, find that the waiter asks “You don’t mind do you?” and scrapes my leftovers onto the plate of the hungry guy on the next table, do I?

I was genuinely offended by her actions but managed to contain my anger and channel it into an over emphasis of the word the ‘he’ when I replied “Well if he wants them then, no [I don’t mind].”

It’s just the principle here; I’d like you [the shop] to respect my right to not give two hoots about the numerous sales gimmicks you throw at me. Having replied that I don’t have card, combined with the absence of regret on my face at not having a card, the subject should be promptly dropped and all “card” related talk should be suspended until the next little “happy shopper” approaches the conveyor belt.